From: Michael M. Butler (mmb@spies.com)
Date: Mon Feb 24 2003 - 19:23:08 MST
>Dear "A Different Mike,"
> Just to be sure we are on the same page I read this article of
>his and none other.
>http://www.nwc.navy.mil/newrulesets/ThePentagonsNewMap.htm
> If you look at the proper map he does have Korea circled and a
>reference number for looking up his comments in the text.
The same page, but perhaps not the same fold.
http://www.nwc.navy.mil/newrulesets/ThePentagonsNewMap.htm is the URL,
globes.jpg is the file.
The main (first) map, placed just above a black red-bordered box, with an
all-caps lede "DICONNECTEDNESS DEFINES DANGER" was what I, and Mr. Lorrey, was
complaining about. It is the first map; it is where he starts to show his
thesis in the large. To serve the text, it should express his thesis accurately.
Vietnam, Laos, Kampuchea, Myanmar are all in the dark zone, but none of Korea
is. This is a small but GLARING map error, especially given that the DPRK
*is* mentioned later, as you say.
That's all the (my) complaint was about. Easy enough to fix. But who will
fix it? I expect that the article in Esquire had the same map. So someone
should tell Willam McNulty and Thomas Barnett about it. But the slightly
goofed up map will persist, because these things have their own lives once
published.
I expect someone else has ripped them a new one already. :)
MMB, the same other Mike
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